Cutting the product

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... Obviously you don't have kids

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Tootie fruities are just flat out better tha Froot Loops. Fight me.

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Or how people tend to prefer Pepsi in blind tests (I think it's sweeter or something, if i remember correctly) but overwhelmingly chose CocaCola if given the choice.

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It's definitely still true in Central Europe

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My guess is that the brand names got stuck from their own popularity. People knew what they tasted like and might have reacted badly if they tried to tweak the recipe, whereas the budget brands were easier to either change or even discontinue and replace with slightly different branding. People were buying them for the price, not the recipe.

And then, after enough experimentation, they were able to figure out something that matched or surpassed the brand names.

In Canada, there's the PC brand that I always considered a budget brand. Until I worked at an ice cream factory that had their own premium brand but also made some PC flavours. The PC ones looked better than the factory brand ones. The factory did things the old way (where ice cream flavours were still more about the ice cream than extras added) while PC focused more on the extras like cookie dough or chocolate caramel cups. I can only speak for myself, but I'm more into the extras than the ice cream itself, so it felt like PC was more in tune with what I wanted than the premium brand.

Additionally, the premium brand sticking with the less preferred recipe kinda feels pretentious at this point, like they are being ice cream purists or think they know better about what people want, given the higher price.

PC also had their versions of various pop flavours that have colouring on the boxes to make it clear what they were cloning and their Pepsi cola clone was just as good as the real thing but way cheaper.

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cereal is cereal, mostly

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For example, I loved the shitty school pizzas, even though they were a culinary abortion.

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culinary abortion

your loss is our sauce

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Yup, but they are made in the same factory

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Swiss rolls > ho hos

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Malt o meal is just better in general. The Colossal Berry Crunch is better than Cap'n Crunch too. And you can buy the giant bag that lasts forever.

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Malt-o-meal is also a name brand rather than a store brand. Just less well known than Kellogg or General Mills.

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Forget the kids, don't let Meemaw find out!

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Kids: *Happily eating substitution*

You: *Reveal the trick*

Kids: "Well now we're not eating it anymore" (and also they could supposedly tell something was off all along)

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Since covid manufacturers basically just started colluding across the board to fix prices. Every government around the world has utterly failed at holding them accountable

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don’t let Meemaw find out!

lol they learned the trick from Meemaw!

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My parents mixing the expensive cat food with the cheap cat food: ️

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Yeah they tossed the marshmallow mateys in with my lucky charms too

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I like that crispix cereal but it's fucking expensive. I wish maltomeal made a version of it.

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Literally everyone is like this. Everyone. You'd do the same thing.

You order a grass-fed porterhouse
You receive it. Tastes different than what you expected but it's good. they must make it different here
Chef comes out and says you just got epic pranked. That was a grain-fed ribeye (I don't know steak cuts)
You refuse to pay.